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Paul Schimmel Agnes Gund
Category: Curator Category: Collector
Nationality: American Nationality: American
Last Year: 21 Last Year: New
It speaks to the level of Paul But the shadow cast by As president of the Board of more than 30 percent of her annual
Schimmel’s reputation that even Schimmel, who seems to enjoy his Trustees, the Ohio banking heiress income; meanwhile her private
after 12 months without a major presence in the local and national Agnes Gund spearheaded the fund- collection includes masterpieces
show, he’s still considered far and press, is so long that he’s still raising campaign for MoMA’s $850 virtually impossible to find on the
away the most important curator considered the leading interpreter million rebuild, with the museum’s market today. In 2003 she was
in Southern California. The largest of the West Coast’s visual code. He’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby reported to have turned down an
exhibition in 2007 at his home base, associated with seminal shows such being named in recognition of her offer of $30 million for her 1956 de
LA’s Museum of Contemporary as Helter Skelter, which unearthed a personal donation. Only someone Kooning, and who knows what her
Art, has been Wack!: Art and the dark, culty strain of LA art in 1992, as committed and connected as Jasper Johns map might fetch.
Feminist Revolution, curated by with work by Mike Kelley and Chris Aggie could have pulled it off. In
Connie Butler. Burden; and recent ones such as addition to her role at the Modern
At the same time, the Hammer Ecstasy: In and About Altered States – Gund is now president emerita of
Museum has taken some of the high (2006) and Robert Rauschenberg: the board and chair of the powerful
road from MOCA when it comes Combines (2005). International Council – she sits on
to young, especially West Coast- At the end of this year the boards of the Menil Collection,
based contemporary artists. And Schimmel, who has described the the Frick Museum, the Barnes
several Schimmel-trained curators, museum as ‘a place where you Foundation and P.S.1, and chairs
including Glasgow-bred Russell define culture at the moment’, will New York City’s Cultural Affairs
Ferguson, now helming UCLA’s open Murakami at MOCA, which Advisory Commission. Through her
sterling art department, have will then travel to Brooklyn and philanthropy she puts her money
become important players. Europe. where her mouth is, giving away
One of New York’s most powerful art also been active in putting together Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al plans to build its biggest space yet,
dealers, William Acquavella is head the casino resort developer Steve Nahyan is crown prince of Abu to be designed by Frank Gehry,
of Acquavella Galleries, established Wynn’s collection, the bulk of which Dhabi, the UAE capital that has and located in what will be a new
by his father in 1925, which deals – museum-quality works by the likes seldom been out of the news this centre of finance and leisure in
in nineteenth- and twentieth- of Picasso, Matisse and Monet – is year when it comes to splashy Abu Dhabi. Following this came
century art – Impressionist, Post- on show at the Bellagio’s art gallery museum projects on a giant scale. a further announcement for a
Impressionist, Cubist and Surrealist in Las Vegas. First it was announced that the performing arts centre designed by
masters – as well as representing French culture minister had agreed another starchitect, Zaha Hadid.
later artists such as Lucian Freud to a deal whereby, in order to attach Unsurprisingly some of these
and James Rosenquist. Acquavella the Louvre’s name for 30 years to developments have been considered
trades in the highest, multimillion- a new museum that is expected to controversial, with accusations of
dollar echelon of the art market; open in 2012, Abu Dhabi would be national heritage being sold off
at the New York Sotheby’s auction responsible for picking up the $800 and warnings from human rights
last November, he was the seller of million to $1 billion tab, including organisations to respect the rights
the most expensive and important costs of art loans and advice, and to of immigrant workers in the UAE.
work, Cézanne’s Still Life with Fruits help refurbish a wing of the Louvre
and Ginger Jar (1895), which went itself. While the artworld is yet to
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